Quotes by Miles Davis

Miles Davis

…people will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype. They want to be hip, want always to be in on the new thing so they don’t look unhip. White people are especially like that, particularly when a black person is doing something they don’t understand…That’s what I thought was happening when Ornette hit town.

Hype

Music

White

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[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.

Feels

Jazz

Musician

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[Prince] could very well be the Duke Ellington of Rock ‘n’ Roll.

Dukes

Rock N Roll

Rocks

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A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.

Legends

Men

Music

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A lot of people ask me where music is going today. I think it’s going in short phrases. If you listen, anybody with an ear can hear that. Music is always changing. It changes because of the times and the technology that’s available, the material that things are made of, like plastic cars instead of steel. So when you hear an accident today it sounds different, not all the metal colliding like it was in the forties and fifties. Musicians pick up sounds and incorporate that into their playing, so the music that they make will be different.

People

Technology

Thinking

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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.

Music Is

Painting

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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.

Inspiration

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Always listen for what you can leave out.

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Always look ahead, but never look back.

Jazz

Looks

Music

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Americans don’t like any form of art, man. All they like to do is make money. They don’t like me, Sammy Davis, or anybody else. They don’t like nothing. They just like Sammy because he can make ’em a lot of money.

America

Art

Men

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